Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (517 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:43:05PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 02/07/10 22:32, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > On Friday 02 July 2010 14:16:32 Atri Bhattacharya wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi!
> > > Could someone test this bug
> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617651
> > > with Gnome in RC2 and confirm if he/she can see it regularly too?
> > >
> > > Also I don't understand clearly what a "shipstopper" means, but if this
> > > crash is indeed so clearly reproducible and brings down X every time,
> > > would this be a shipstopper?
> > >     
> > This kind of bug could be fixed with an online update, so I would not call
> > it a shipstopper.  Still if the fix looks good, I'm sure Coolo will
> > evaluate for taking it into the final build.
> >
> > I see as shipstopper the following but let's ask Coolo what he thinks:
> > * a serious data loss or security problem right after start that we could
> > not easily fix wiht an update.
> > * anything in the update stack or installation that would not let you
> > install the system completely and update to fix the problem
> >
> > Andreas
> >   
>
>
> But "Coolo" just wrote,
>
> A ship stopper at this point basically means: it's impossible to fix with
> an online update and is so severe that many people will notice it.
>
> Greetings, Stephan
>
>
> So then, what is the true situation now?

What the release manager writes, he is the final arbiter.

And "Coolo" is this release manager ;)

Ciao, Marcus
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